Yeah, I don’t know what this is about. Adam gets very motion sick with something like a handheld shakey cam but I’m totally fine, and I get sick almost the instant I sit in a cab (I don’t think the way they drive helps) and Adam is totally fine. Also airplanes, turbulent or not, don’t affect me, but Adam gets really sick on those too. So odd the way someone’s body…and maybe brain works.
As for Cloverfield, it was pretty good. It was interesting and well done across the board, however I never felt any connection with any of the characters, perhaps because you know from the beginning what is going to happen to most of them. I also didn’t feel any fear at all. There was nothing remotely scary about the whole movie. Despite the fact that the way it was shot should have made it very real, I just couldn’t connect with it on any important or emotional way. In the end, it gets three stars. I enjoyed it and it was well done, but it didn’t leave much of an impression.
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You two are barf buddies! I don’t plan on seeing Cloverfield, but it’s been interesting to read peoples’ reactions. I remember getting dizzy just from the running in Blair Witch. Oh wells.
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Cloverfield had a couple of moments where I got nauseous and had to look away but it wasn’t as bad as Blair Witch Project. Let me clarify… I get sick when airplanes land. It’s the fear and the pressurization.
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I was unimpressed with Cloverfield. It felt like the whole movie was leading up to seeing this monster. Once you saw it, the suspense was over and I was honestly just waiting for it to end. The fact that there were 3 or 4 other possible endings that could have worked better than the one they went with only exacerbated the ending. It honestly felt like they were just adding on to the end to get to their 88 minutes.
The only saving grace really was the guy operating the camera who managed to throw some comments in that were funny, albeit totally unlikely given the situations he was in.
Maybe I went in with expectations that were just too high, but I’d give this one a 1 star rating.
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Paul: Just what I always wanted to be – Barf Buddies! Yuck.
Adam: I thought it was the whole turbulence thing as well…oh well.
Scott: Yeouch! 1 star? Really? I’ll give you that it’s not great – and I pretty much agree with everything you said. I just think it was pretty well done for what it was, and very realistic (for the most part) which is effective in a way, though it failed me in any kind of suspense, fear, or connection to characters. That said…I reserve the 1 star rating for really really really terrible movies…like Practical Magic.
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Scott: Check your link…it doesn’t link to your page anymore for some reason…
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really really really terrible movies… like Boondock Saints.
😉
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Adam: Don’t make me ban you from comments…
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